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15 unusual facts about Bethel


Assemblies of Yahweh

The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania.

Bethel Institution

He massively strengthened and extended the institution, with more premises also for the poor and at other locations, and renamed it after Bethel in 1874.

Bethel, Abernant

Bethel, Abernant is a Baptist Chapel at Abernant in the Aberdare Valley and one of the few nonconformist chapels in the area that still functions today.

Bethel, Oklahoma

Bethel, Grant County, Oklahoma, the site of a post office from March 12, 1895, until November 2, 1895

Bethel, Oregon

Bethel Elementary School, in the Salem-Keizer School District, named after the Bethel Church, built in that locale by the Dunkard Brethren

Harrellsville, North Carolina

Originally known as Bethel, the town was changed to Harrellsville in the 1860s out of respect for Abner Harrell.

Jay Heimowitz

Jay B. Heimowitz (born December 26, 1937) is an American poker player from Bethel, New York.

John P. Roberts

Following protests from local residents they moved to its eventual location in Bethel, New York.

Ruth C. Engs

Although born in Pennsylvania, Engs spent her formative years in the small town of Bethel, Vermont.

Samuel Medary

Samuel Medary (February 25, 1801 – November 7, 1864) Born and raised in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he settled in Bethel, Ohio in 1825.

Simon Dumont

On April 11, 2008, Simon Dumont set the current world quarter-pipe height record at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine.

T-groups

It was pioneered in the mid-1940s by Moreno's protege Kurt Lewin and his colleagues as a method of learning about human behavior in what became The National Training Laboratories (now NTL Institute of Behavioral Science) that was created by the Office of Naval Research and the National Education Association in Bethel, Maine, in 1947.

William McKendree

In 1798, he was appointed to the Baltimore conference, and in 1800 he went with Bishop Asbury and Bishop Richard Whatcoat to the Western Conference, which met that year at Bethel, Kentucky.

Wisconsin Death Trip

The book inspired a number of musical works, including the opera Black River by Conrad Susa, which was composed in 1975 and revised 1981; the "dramatic cantata" Songs of Madness and Sorrow by Daron Hagen, composed in 1996, a song by the Bethel, Maine-based thrash metal band Theory of Negativity on their 1994 self-titled album; and the 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip by the band Static-X.

Young Communist League USA

The founding convention of the YCL was held early in May 1922, apparently in Bethel, Connecticut.


Battle of Michmash

According to the Bible, the Battle of Michmash was fought between Israelites under Jonathan, son of King Saul and a force of Phillistines at Michmash, a town east of Bethel and south of Migron.

Bethel Acres, Oklahoma

Wade Hayes, singer, was born April 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres.

Bethel Baptist Hospital

Bethel Baptist Hospital, Inc. (BBH) or Bethel Hospital is a 75-bed healthcare institution in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, Philippines founded in 1973.

Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare

In 1849 121 members were transferred to form Gwawr, Aberaman; in 1855, 89 were released to start a cause at Mountain Ash, and in 1862, 163 were released to strengthen Bethel, Abernant; in the same year 131 were released to form a church in Ynyslwyd; in 1865 49 were transferred to form Gadlys Church.

Clemens Stadium

On November 8, 2003, Clemens Stadium hosted a then-NCAA Division III record 13,107 fans for a game against Bethel, for John Gagliardi's record-breaking 409th career victory.

Danbury Fair

The Danbury Fair Paul Bunyan was eventually painted like a "hippy" and moved to Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York (home of annual Woodstock reunions).

Deanburg, Tennessee

It is home to two Baptist churches (Bethel and Deanburg) and a community center.

Dickerson Wells

Almost immediately after, Pastor Wells claimed that God told him to change the name of his church from "Bethesda" to "Bethel".

District of Bethel

Companies like Heringer, Galvani, Rhodia and Purina make Bethel a place industrialized, but with very high levels of pollution, which makes this district a place with serious environmental problems.

Bethel is located in a center of vocational schools as composed of the ETEP, the SENAI, the CEFUP-Training Center of Public officials Paulínia as well as School Professor Domingos de Araújo, among others.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

His father was Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior (6 March 1831, Tecklenburg – 2 April 1910, Bethel), founder of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel charitable foundations.

George Papageorgiou

Before taking the head coach position at Bethel he was an assistant for the Willamette Bearcats in Salem, Oregon.

Gold mining in Alaska

The KGB includes all or parts of the historic Aniak/Tuluksak, Anvik, Bethel, Goodnews Bay, Iditarod-Flat, Innoko, Marshall, McGrath, Ruby, and Tolstoi mining districts, as well as newly realized gold-rich areas.

Granville, Vermont

Granville residents in grades PK-K and 5-6 attend Granville/Hancock Village School in Granville, grades 1-4 attend Granville/Hancock Village School in Hancock and grades 7-12 attend Harwood Union High School in South Duxbury, Whitcomb Junior/Senior High School in Bethel or Rochester High School in Rochester.

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann

After the high school diploma Flöttmann fulfilled the alternative civilian service from 1966 until 1968 in the von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld in the house Arimathia.

Iran Bethel School

Without the Iran Bethel school and the efforts of Jane Doolittle and Frances M. Gray, Damavand College could have never been established and the improvement of the early deprived Iranian women of Qajar and later Pahlavi dynasty could have never been achieved.

Joseph Jackson Fuller

In the 1850s Joseph Fuller led the Bethel congregation in Duala.

Joshua Clayton

Later his remains were moved into the Bethel Church Cemetery at Chesapeake City, Maryland.

Joyce Ballou Gregorian

She then taught English for one year at the Iran Bethel School in Tehran.

Kenneth Meshoe

On 18 December 1994, Kenneth Meshoe was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters, abbreviated L.H.D.), by Bethel Christian College of Riverside, California, USA, and was also appointed to serve as an Associate Member on the Board of Regents of Bethel College.

Michael Holmes

Michael W. Holmes, professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, Bethel University

Simon Dumont

He attended Telstar Regional High School in Bethel, where he graduated in 2004.

Single-wire earth return

In 1981 a high-power 8.5 mile prototype SWER line was successfully installed from a diesel plant in Bethel to Napakiak in Alaska, United States.

Slingsby Bethel

But on 24 June 1680 Bethel, who was a member of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers (elected Master for 1692-93), and Henry Cornish, were chosen sheriffs of London and Middlesex, though they were unable to serve in consequence of their not having taken the oaths commanded by the Corporation Act.

St Austell parishes

St Austell Town Council covering Bethel, Gover, Mount Charles, Poltair and St Austell Bay (Holmbush area); represented by 20 councillors.

The Rip Tide

Influenced by the recording of For Emma, Forever Ago, Condon wrote The Rip Tide while he spent six months in isolation living in a Bethel, New York winter cabin.

Thomas Enright

He, along with Corporal James Bethel Gresham of Evansville, Indiana, and Private Merle David Hay of Glidden, Iowa, all serving in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (“The Big Red One”), were the first Americans to die in combat during the First World War when on November 3, 1917, German troops trench raided their position near the village of Bathelémont les Bauzemont in the Lorraine (region), east of Nancy.

Tipp City Independent Voice

The Tipp City Independent Voice (IV) was a weekly newspaper, serving Tipp City, Ohio as well as Monroe and Bethel townships in Miami County but the newspaper published its final issue on July 22, 2009.

Unalaska, Alaska

Unalaska is located in the Aleutians No. 2 voting precinct, in the 37th election district and Senate district S. The city is represented in the Alaska House of Representatives by Bob Herron and in the Alaska Senate by Lyman Hoffman, both Democrats from Bethel.

William Johnson Stone

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895): chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Congress) He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kuttawa, Lyon County; Confederate pension commissioner of Kentucky in 1912 and served until his death in Frankfort, Kentucky, March 12, 1923; interment in New Bethel Cemetery, Lyon County, Kentucky.

Wilson Bethel

Stephen Wilson Bethel (born February 24, 1984) is an American actor and the son of Stephen Bethel and author Joyce Maynard.

Wynona Carr

Both Carr's gospel and R&B recordings went largely unappreciated during the time they were released, but found a new audience when Specialty Records released two CDs, covering Carr's entire output on the label and adding previously unreleased material, such as a recording with Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha Franklin) and his New Bethel Baptist Church Choir in Detroit.